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**Duke** · 08-09-2006, 11:19 AM

Interesting article in Wired today about widening .eu inestigation that has EURid on the hot seat:

http://www.wired.com/news/technology...rss.technology

**beatz** · 08-09-2006, 02:04 PM

I just can repeat it:

Expect a big surprise if investigations should (hopefully) focus on enom's activities in regards of .eu domains.

Question: What does enom have in common with a german company by the name of Minerva GmbH ?

Answer: They share more than just the same nameservers on numerous premium .eu domains.

Hint: Take a look at the whois of essen.eu to see an example of what i mean.

Updates will follow here:

http://www.dnforum.com/thread171020.html

Banned: WhoDatDog · 08-09-2006, 05:34 PM

People who invest in any extention other than dotcom without having a unique advantage will most always end up with lemons. The unique advantage here was having phoney companies set up.

Many people on this board tried to explain that if the speculators have all of the names then the extention is doomed. If you cannot figure that out then you deserve to take a big loss on this extention...and others.

Those who run away from dotcoms often get taught valuable lessons. The Internet is the biggest change in human behavior in one thousand years....and dotcom is synonymous with that. If you think you can duplicate that feat again then you are welcome to invest in the next "hot" new extention that will be hyped. It will just get run over...as usual. Next.

**StockDoctor** · 08-09-2006, 07:03 PM

What? You think I'm an idgit?

**SYSTEMX** · 08-10-2006, 05:05 AM

Thank god..... I hope they lose the TLD.

Banned: denny007 · 08-10-2006, 05:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SYSTEMX

Thank god..... I hope they lose the TLD.

Huh ? Who do you "hope to lose the TLD" ?

**Ian** · 08-10-2006, 05:44 AM

Those who invested in .eu have not lost anything. It is only a matter of time before they start reaping those benefits. Save for messing by those crooked registrars, .eu is still a TLD with a lot of potential!

**McDot** · 08-10-2006, 07:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Abraham

Those who invested in .eu have not lost anything. It is only a matter of time before they start reaping those benefits. Save for messing by those crooked registrars, .eu is still a TLD with a lot of potential!

Jep, well said Abraham.

EU should develop to become the most wanted TLD in Europe, after the cc of each country and com.

As for the mistakes made:
I don't really want to start a political discussion at this point, but there were plenty of mistakes made with other TLDs also. I am actually glad, certain mistakes are being "found" and "corrected".